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1. On a wagon bound for market
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there's a calf with a mournfull eye
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high above him there's a swallow
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winging swifly through the sky
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How the winds are laughing,
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they laugh with all their might(mind)
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laugh and laugh the whole day through
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and half the summers night
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2. Stop complaining, said the farmer,
who told you a calf to be
why don't you have wings to fly with
like a swallow so proud and free ?
3. Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
never knowing the reason why
but who ever treasures freedom,
like the swallow had learned to fly